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INDIANA SOCIETY 

OF 

SONS of the REVOLUTION 



Significance of the Sons of the Revolution 
History of the General Society 



Constitution and By-Laws 
Indiana Society 



Instructions to Applicants and 
List of Members 




1911 



HISTORY, CONSTITUTION, BY-LAWS 

INSTRUCTIONS TO APPLICANTS 

AND A LIST OF MEMBERS 

OF THE 



SOCIETY OF SONS OF 

THE REVOLUTION 

IN INDIANA 




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PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY 
1911 



THE INDIANA SOCIETY OF SONS OF THE 
REVOLUTION. 

The Society is: 

(1) A patriotic society, perpetuating the memory of the 
brave deeds of the forefathers, promoting patriotism in the pres- 
ent time, educating the young, inspiring respect for the flag, and 
providing and erecting memorials to those whose services in the 
military, naval and civil life of the Colonies helped to bring about 
American independence. 

(2) A genealogical and historical society, preserving- lines 
of family descent and family historical data; also manuscripts, 
records and other documents relating to the Revolutionary period. 

(3) A society for conserving pride in clean, strong and hon- 
orable family stocks, thereby giving men an ideal to live up to 
and to add to, tending to make them better men both in citizen- 
ship and in the home. 



The Meaning and Ideals of the Sons of the Revolution. 

A people which takes no pride in the noble achievements of 
remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be re- 
membered with pride by remote descendants. 

It is impossible not to respect the sentiment which indicates 
itself by those tokens. 

It is a sentiment which belongs to the higher and purer part 
of human nature, and which adds not a little to the strength of 
the States. — Macaulay. 



I propose to show in this book that a man's natural abilities 
are derived by inheritance, under exactly the same limitations as 
are the form and physical features of the whole organic world. 
Consequently, * ^i^ * j^ would be quite practicable to produce 
a highly gifted race of men by judicious marriages during sev- 
eral consecutive generations. * . "f * I conclude that each gen- 
eration has enormous power ove'r'the natural gifts of those that 
follow, and maintain that it is a duty we owe to humanity to in- 
vestigate the range of that power, and to exercise it in a way that, 



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without being unwise towards ourselves, shall be most advan- 
tageous to future inhabitants of the earth. — From "Hereditary 
Genius," by Sir Francis Galton. 



It is maintained by Helvetius and his set, that an infant of 
genius is quite the same as any other infant, only that certain 
surprisingly favorable influences accompany him through life, 
especially through childhood, and expand him, while others lie 
close folded, and continue dunces. "^ '''' * With w'hich opin- 
ion, cries Teufelsdockh, "I should as soon agree as with this 
other — that an acorn might, by favorable or unfavorable in- 
fluences of soil and climate, be nursed into a cabbage, or the 
cabbage-seed into an oak. Nevertheless," continues he, "I, too, 
acknowledge the all but omnipotence of early culture and nur- 
ture." — From "Sartor Resartus," by Carlyle. 



Whether it be in character, disposition, energy, intellect or 
physical power, we each receive at our birth a definite en- 
dowment, allegorized by the parable related in St. Matthew, 
some receiving many talents', others few ; but each person be- 
ing responsible for the profitable use of that which has been 
entrusted to him — Second Huxley Lecture of Sir Francis 
Galton. 



The chief moral trait of a winning race is stability of char- 
acter. Primitive peoples are usually over-emotional and poised 
unstably between smiles and tears. They act quickly, if at 
all, and according to the impulse of the moment. * * * 
We recall Carlyle's comparing Gallic fire, which is as the 
crackling of dry thorns under a pot, with the Teutonic fire, 
which rises slowly but will melt iron. In private endeavor per- 
severance, in the social economy the keeping of promises, and 
in the state steadfastness — these are the requisites of success, 
and they all depend on stability of character. * * * The su- 
periority of a race cannot be preserved without pride of blood 
and an uncompromising attitude tow^ard the lower races. 
* * * Since the higher culture should be kept pure as well 
as the hijrher blood, that race is stronger which, down to the 



cultivator or the artisan, has a strong sense of its superiority. — 
From "The Causes of Race Superiority," by Edward A. Ross. 

The importance to human society of positive characteris- 
tics in the germ plasm needs little argument. All will admit 
the debt of society to the Bach family, containing musicians 
for eig^ht generations, of which twenty-nine eminent ones were 
assembled at one fam.ily gathering; to the family of the painter 
Titian (Vecellio), with nine painters of merit; to the Ber- 
nouilli family, of Swiss origin, with ten members famous as 
mathematicians, physicists and naturalists ; to the Jussieu fam- 
ily, of France, with five eminent botanists ; to the Darwin 
family, which gave not only Charles Darwin, his eminent 
grandfather, Erasmus, and his cousin, Francis' Galton, but also 
among the children of Charles, a mathematical astronomer of 
the first rank, a professor of plant physiology at Cambridge 
University, an inventor of scientific instruments of precision, 
and a member of Parliament ; in this country to an Adams 
family of statesmen, an Abbott family of authors, a Beecher 
family of authors and preachers, and an Edwards family that 
has supplied this country with many of its great college presi- 
dents and educators, men of science, leaders in philanthropic 
movements, inventors, and leaders in the industrial world. 
Important as are these great families, their qualities represent 
only a small fraction of the powerful hereditary characteristics 
that are inherent in our best protoplasm. In this day of con- 
servation, would that we might keep in mind that this' proto- 
plasm is our most valuable national resource, and that our 
greatest duty to the future is to maintain it and transmit it 
improved to subsequent generations, to the end that our 
human society may be maintained and improved. — From "The 
Influence of Heredity on Human Society," by Charles B. Dav- 
enport (Annals of the American Academy, Race Improvement 
in the United States). 



Not to mention the exposure of weakling children by the 
various races, restrictions on marriage of one kind or another 
have been imposed by almost all peoples. * * * Since 
Christianity and civilization have emphasized the worth of the 

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individual, the voluntary elimination of the unfit has been lim- 
ited to the execution of offenders against political or religious 
laws, and the forced segregation of certain other classes, like 
paupers, insane persons, idiots and lepers. * * * Eugenics 
includes, not only the prevention of unfit, but the conscious 
attempt to produce the more fit ; indeed, it is in the latter 
sense that the word is most often used. Strictly speaking, 
however, it must include all attempts to improve the physical 
equipment of the individual in so far as he acquires it by 
heredity. The recent emphasis upon eugenics is a direct out- 
come of modern science. * * * Comte, Herbert Spencer, 
in fact nearly all modern philosophers, have laid emphasis on 
making this world better, without reference to what may hap- 
pen in any other world. The culmination of this movement 
is found in such men as Nietzche, Bernard Shaw and Presi- 
dent Roosevelt. The Christ ideal is no longer one of religious 
contemplation, but of human perfection ; the superman, work- 
ing in a strenuous life to produce a better world here and now, 
is the one who attracts the admiration of men today. Science 
has aided this movement in another way by showing that, in 
the last century, too much emphasis was laid upon environment 
and too little upon heredity. Education, environment, can de- 
velop and modify; they cannot create. Modern biology shows 
how different organisms react upon the same environment; 
and that, by selecting individuals who react in certain ways, 
more can be accomplished than by merely changing the en- 
vironment of the total number. * * * Nietzche's defini- 
tion of marriage, as the union of two with the object of pro- 
ducing beings higher than themselves, is beginning to be seri- 
ously'considered. * * * That heredity counts for more 
than environment is shown by the importance attached to the 
former, as compared with latter, by the insurance companies. 
* * * As Professor P'earson says: "You cannot change 
the leopard's spots, and you cannot change bad stock to good ; 
you may dilute it, possibly spread it over a wide area, spoiling 
good stock, but until it ceases to multiply it Avill not cease to 
be." * * * Immigration of undesirables contributes to 
what George William Curtis called the ''watering of the na- 
tion's life-blood." One of America's greatest problems is how 
best to keep Teutonic stock and traditions in the ascendency. 



Just at this point 1 seem to hear something said of the colossal 
Teutonic conceit which thinks its race better than others. I 
frankly accept the challenge. I do believe that, in recent cen- 
turies, the Teutonic stock has been the finest in the world. 
The Iberic had its day; but compare the history of the Span- 
ish-American republics for three hundred years with that of 
England, Germany, Scandinavia and the United States. If 
our country had been settled by Galicians, Croatians, Sicilians 
or Greeks, can anyone suppose that our institutions and 
achievements would have been what they have or that the 
movement toward political and religious' liberty throu.s^hout 
all the world would have been the same? * * * jf the 
facts show, as I believe they do, that a considerable propor- 
tion of the immigrants coming today are below the average of 
our citizenship, mentally, morally and physically, and if they 
have tended to lower that average, why is it ungenerous to 
say, "You shall not come faster than we can lift you to our 
level or higher, and those of you who are very far below our 
level shall not come until you fit 3^ourselves for our condi- 
tions"? * * * The undesirables of Southern Europe and 
of Asia also multiply much more rapidly than the hieher class 
peoples of Anglo-Saxon origin, so that the multiplication of 
the fitest among the latter should be encouraged at the same 
time we are restricting the entrance of the unfit among the 
former. * * * To sum up, the open hand may not be the 
most generous attitude, either toward our foreign-born citi- 
zens, toward present immigrants, toward future immigrants, 
or toward the world at large. In the words' of Phillips "Rrnoks : 
"If the world, in the great march of centuries, is going to be 
richer for the development of a certain national character, 
built up by a larger type of manhood here, then for the world's 
sake, for the sake of every nation that would pour in upon it 
that which would disturb that development, we have a rio-ht 
to stand guard over it." — Contracted from a paper on "Eu- 
genics, Ethics and Immigration," by Prescott F. Hall. 



The men who made their way to the British Isles have 
shown themselves the most masterful and achieving of the 
Germanic race, while their ofifshoots in America and Australia, 



in spite of some mixture, show the highest level of individual 
efficiency found in any people of the Anglo-Saxon breed. 
* * ^ There is no doubt that the form of society which a 
race adopts is potent to paral3^ze or to release its energy. In 
this' respect Americans are especially fortunate, for their en- 
ergies are stimulated to the utmost by democracy. — From 
"Causes of Race Superiority," by E. A. Ross. 



It is said that democracy is fighting against the best-de- 
termined and most peremptory of biological laws, namely, the 
law of heredity, with which law the social structure of mon- 
archial and oligarchical states is in strict conformity. This 
criticism fails to recognize the distinction between artificial 
privileges transmissible without regard to inherited virtues or 
powers, and inheritable virtues or powers transmissible with- 
out regard to hereditary privileges. Artificial privileges will 
be abolished by a democracy; natural, inheritable virtues or 
powers are as surely transmissible under a democracy as un- 
der any other form of government. Families can be made just 
as enduring in a democratic as in an oligarchic state, if fam- 
ily permanence be desired and aimed at. The desire for the 
continuity of vigorous families, and for the reproduction of 
beauty, genius and nobility of character is universal. "From 
fairest creatures we desire increase," is the commonest of sen- 
timents. The American multitude will not take the children 
of distingushed persons on trust; but it is delighted when an 
able man has an abler son, or a lovely mother a lovelier daugh- 
ter. That a democracy does not prescribe the close intermar- 
riage which characterizes a strict aristocracy, so-called, is 
physically not a disadvantage, but a greater advantage for the 
freer society. The French nobility and the Englsh House of 
Lords furnish good evidence that aristocracies do not succeed 
in perpetuating select types of intellect or of character. 

In the future there will undoubtedly be seen a great in- 
crease in the number of permanent families in the United 
States — families in which honor, education and property will 
be transmitted with reasonable certainty ; and a fair beginning 
has already been made. On the quinquennial catalogue of Har- 

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vard University there are about five hundred and sixty fam- 
ily stocks which have been represented by g-raduates at inter- 
vals for at least one hundred years. On the Yale catalogue 
there are about four hundred and twenty such family stocks, 
and it is probable that all other American colleges which have 
existed one hundred years or more show similar facts in pro- 
portion to their age and to the number of their graduates. 
There is nothing in American institutions to prevent this na- 
tural process from extending and continuing. The college 
graduate who does not send his son to college is a curious ex- 
ception. American colleges are, indeed, chiefly recruited from 
the sons of men who were not college-bred themselves ; for 
democratic society is mobile, and permits young men of ability 
to rise easily from the lower to the higher levels. But, on the 
other hand, nothing in the constitution of society forces men 
down who have once risen, or prevents their children or grand- 
children from staying on the higher level if they have the 
virtue in them. 

The interest in family genealogies has much increased of 
late years, and hundreds of thousands of persons are already 
recorded in printed volumes which have been compiled and 
published by voluntary contributions or by the zeal of indi- 
viduals'. In the Harvard University Library are four hundred 
and fifteen American family genealogies, three-quarters of 
which have been printed since 1860. * * * When some 
American Galton desires, in the next century, to study heredi- 
tary genius or character under a democracy, he will find ready 
to his hand an enormous mass of material. There are in the 
United States one hundred and forty-eight historical societies', 
most of them recently established, which give a large share of 
their attention to biography, genealogy, necrology and kindred 
topics.* Persons and families of local note, the settlement 
and development of new towns, and the rise of new industries 
"are commemorated by these societies, which are accumulating 
and preserving materials for the philosophical historian who 
shall hereafter describe the social condition of a democracy 
which in a hundred years overran the habitable parts of a con- 
tinent. 

* Massachusetts and North Dakota are providing for recording famly lines in one 
of the State departments. 

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Two things are necessary to a family permanence — edu- 
cation and bodily vigor, in every generation. To secure these 
two things, the holding and the transmission of moderate prop- 
erties in families must be so well provided by law and custom 
as to be possible for large numbers of families. For the ob- 
jects in view, great properties are not so desirable as moderate 
or even small properties, since the transmission of health and 
education with great properties is not so sure as' with small 
properties. * * * 

The holding and the transmission of property in families 
are, however, only means to two ends — namely, education and 
health in successive generations. From the first, the Ameri- 
can democracy recognized the fact that education was of su- 
preme importance to it — the elementary education for all, the 
higher for all the naturally selected ; but it awakened much 
later to the necessity of attending to the health of the people. 
European aristocracies have always secured themselves in a 
measure against physical degeneration by keeping a large pro- 
portion of their men in training as soldiers and sportsmen, 
and most of their women at ease in country seats. In our 
democratic society, which at first thought only of work and 
production, it is now to be seen that public attention is di- 
rected more and more to the means of preserving and increas- 
ing health and vigor. Some of these means are country 
schools for city children, country or seaside houses for fami- 
lies, public parks and gardens, out-of-door sports, systematic 
physical training in schools and colleges, vacations for business 
and professional men, and improvements in the dwellings and 
the diet of all classes. Democracy leaves marriages and social 
groups to be determined by natural afiFiliation or congeniality 
of tastes and pursuits, which is the effective principle in the 
association of cultivated persons under all forms of govern- 
ment. So far from having any quarrel with the law of heredi- 
tary transmission, it leaves the principle of heredity perfectly 
free to act ; but it does not add to the natural sanctions of that 
principle an unnecessary bounty of privileges conferred by law. 

From this consideration of the supposed conflict between 
democracy and the law of heredity the transition is easy to 
my last topic; namely, the effect of democratic institutions on 

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the production of ladies and gentlemen. There can be no ques- 
tion that a general amelioration of manners is brought about 
in a democracy by public schools, democratic churches, public 
conveyances without distinction of class, universal suffrage, 
town-meetings, and all the multifarious associations in which 
democratic society delights ; but this general amelioration 
mig'ht exist, and yet the highest types of manners might fail. 
Do these fail? On this important point American experience 
is already interesting, and I think conclusive. Forty years 
ago Emerson said it was a chief felicity of our country, that 
it excelled in women. It excels more and more. Who has 
not seen in public and in private life American women unsur- 
passable in grace and graciousness, in serenity and dignity, in 
effluent gladness and abounding courtesy? Now, the lady is 
the consummate fruit of human society at its best. In all the 
higher walks of American life there are men whose bearing 
and aspect at once distinguish them as gentlemen. They have 
personal force, magnanimity, moderation and refinement : they 
are quick to see and to sympathize ; they are pure, brave and 
firm. These are also the qualities that command success; and 
herein lies the only natural connection between the possession 
of property and nobility of character. In a mobile or free so- 
ciety the excellent or noble man is likely to win ease and in- 
dependence ; but it does not follow that under any form of 
government the man of many possessions is necessarily excel- 
lent. On the evidence of my reading and of my personal ob- 
servation at home and abroad, I fully believe that there is a 
larger proportion of ladies and g'entlemen in the United States 
than in any other country. This proposition is, I think, true 
with the highest definition of the term "lady" or "gentleman" ; 
but it is also true, if ladies and gentlemen are only persons 
who are clean and well-dressed, who speak gently and eat 
with their forks. It is unnecessary, however, to claim any su- 
periority for democracy in this respect ; enough that the high- 
est types of manners in men and women are produced abund- 
antly on democratic soil. 

It would appear, then, from American experience that neith- 
er generations of privileged ancestors, nor large inherited pos- 
sessions, are necessary to the making of a lady or gentleman. 

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What is necessary? In the first place, natural gifts. The gen- 
tleman is born in a democracy no less than in a monarchy. 
In other words, he is a person of fine bodily and spiritual 
qualities, mostly innate. Secondly, he must have, through ele- 
mentary education, early access to books, and therefore to 
great thoughts and high examples. Thirdly, he must be early 
brought into contact with some refined and noble person — 
father, mother, teacher, pastor, employer or friend. These 
are the only necessary conditions in peaceful times and in law- 
abiding communities like ours. Accordingly, such facts as 
the following are common in the United States : One of the 
numerous' children of a small farmer manages to fit himself for 
college, Avorks his way through college, becomes a lawyer, at 
forty is a much-trusted man in one of the chief cities of the 
Union, and is distinguished for the courtesy and dignity of his 
bearing and speech. The son of a country blacksmith is taught 
and helped to a small college by his minister; he himself be- 
comes a minister, has a long fight with poverty and ill-health, 
but at forty-five holds as high a place as his profession af- 
fords, and every line in his face and every tone in his voice 
betoken the gentleman. The sons and daughters of a success- 
ful shopkeeper take the hig-hest places in the most cultivated 
society of their native place, and well deserve the pre-eminence 
accorded to them. The daughter of a man of very imperfect 
education, who began life with nothing and became a rich 
merchant, is singularly beautiful from youth to age, and pos- 
sesses to the highest degree the charm of dignified and gracious 
manners. A young girl, not long out of school, the child of 
respectable but obscure parents, marries a public man, and in 
conspicuous station bears herself with a grace, dis- 
cretion and nobleness which she could not have exceeded had 
her blood been royal for seven generations. Striking cases of 
this kind will occur to every person in this assembly. They 
are every-day phenomena in American society. What conclu- 
sion do they establish? They prove that the social mobility 
of a democracy, which permits the excellent and well-endowed 
of either sex to rise and to seek out each other, and which 
gives every advantageous variation or sport in a family stock 
free opportunity to develop, is immeasurably more beneficial 

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to a nation than any selective in-breeding, founded on class dis- 
tinctions, which has ever been devised. Since democracy has 
every advantage for producing in due season and proportion 
the best human types, it is reasonable to expect that science 
and literature, music and art, and all the finer graces of society 
will develop and thrive in America, as soon as the more urgent 
tasks of subduing a wilderness and organizing society upon 
an untried plan are fairly accomplished. 

Such are some of the reasons drawn from experience for be- 
lieving that our ship of state is stout and sound ; but she sails — 

* * * the sea 
Of storm-engendering liberty — 

the happiness of the greatest number her destined haven. Her 
safety requires incessant watchfulness and readiness. With- 
out trusty eyes on the lookout and a prompt hand at the wheel, 
the stoutest ship may be dismantled by a passing squall. It is 
only intelligence and discipline which carry the ship to its port. 
— From an essay, The Working of the American Democracy, 
in "American Contributions to Civilization," by Charles W. 
Eliot, former president of Harvard University. 



It seems to me that the principal means of preserving use- 
ful families in democratic society ought to be fully discussed; 
because the family, rather than the individual, is the important 
social unit ; because the perpetuation of sound families is of 
the highest social interest ; and because the democratic form of 
government is that form which in a few years, or a few gen- 
erations, will prevail all over the civilized world. To that dis- 
cussion I venture to contribute the following considerations : 

It must be observed, in the first place, that the social free- 
dom and mobility which permit every superior person to rise 
to his appropriate level in democratic society would be doubt- 
ful advantages if for every person or family which should rise 
another should sink. If society as a whole is to gain by mo- 
bility and openness of structure, those who rise must stay up 
in successive generations, that the higher levels of society may 
be constantly enlarged, and that the proportion of pure, gentle, 

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magnanimous and refined persons may be steadily increased. 
New-risen talent should reinforce the upper ranks. New fami- 
lies' rising to eminent station should be additions to those which 
already hold high place in the regard of their neighbors, and 
should not be merely substitutes for decaying families. In 
feudal society, when a man had once risen to high rank, there 
were systematic arrangements, like primogeniture and entailed 
estates, for keeping his posterity in the same social order. A 
democratic society sanctions no such arrangements, and does 
not need them ; yet, for the interests of the state, the assured 
permanence of superior families is quite as important as the 
free starting of such families. 

Before going further, I ought to explain what I mean by 
good, superior family stocks. I certainly do not mean merely 
rich families. Some rich families are physically and morally 
superior; others are not. Obviously, in our country sudden 
and inordinate wealth makes it not easier, but harder, to bring 
up a family well. Neither do I have sole reference to profes- 
sional or other soft-handed people who live in cities. On the 
contrary, such persons often lack the physical vigor which is 
essential to a good family stock. I have in mind sturdy, hard- 
working, capable and trustworthy people, who are generally 
in comfortable circumstances simply because their qualities are 
those which command reasonable material, as well as moral, 
success. I have in mind, for instance, a family whose mem- 
bers have multiplied and thriven in one New England village 
for 130 years, always industrious, well-to-do and respected, but 
never rich or highly educated, working with their hands, hold- 
ing town and county offices, leading in village enterprises, in- 
dependent, upright and robust. I have in mind the thousand 
family stocks which are represented by graduates, at intervals, 
for one hundred years or more, on the catalogues of Harvard 
and Yale colleges' — families in which comfort, education and 
good character have been transmitted, if riches or high place 
have not. The men of a good family stock may be farmers, 
mechanics, professional men, merchants, or that sort of men of 
leisure who work hard for the public. But while I give this 
broad meaning to the term "good family stocks,'' I hold that 
one kind of family ought especially to be multiplied and per- 

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petuated, namely, the family in which gentle manners, culti- 
vated tastes and honorable sentiments are hereditary. Democ- 
racy must show that it can not only ameliorate the average lot, 
but also produce, as the generations pass, a larger proportion 
of hig^hly cultivated people than any other form of govern- 
ment. 

What, then, are the means of perpetuating good family 
stocks in a democracy? The first is country life. In this re- 
gard, democracies have much to learn from those European 
aristocracies which have proved to be durable. All the vig- 
orous aristocracies of past centuries lived in the country a 
large part of the year. The men were soldiers and sportsmen, 
for the most part, and lived on detached estates sparsely peo- 
pled by an argicultural and martial tenantry. They were 
oftener in camp than in the town or city. Their women lived 
in castles, halls or chateaux in the open country almost the 
whole year, and their children were born and brought up 
there. The aristocratic and noble families of modern Europe 
still have their principal seats in the country, and go to town 
only for a few months of the year. These customs maintain 
vigor of body and equability of mind. It is not necessary, 
however, to go to Europe to find illustrations of modes of life 
favorable to the healthy development and preservation of su- 
perior families. In the last century, and in the early part of 
this century, the country minister and the country lawyer in 
New England were often founders, or members by descent, of 
large and vigorous family stocks, in which well-being and well- 
doing were securely transmitted. Their lives were tranquil, 
simple, not too laborious and sufficiently intellectual ; and their 
occupations took them much out of doors. They had a recog- 
nized leadership in the village communities where they made 
their homes, and also in the commonwealth at large. They 
took thought for education in general, and for the recruiting of 
their own professions ; and they had a steadying and uplifting- 
sense of responsibility for social order and progress, and for 
state righteousness. In many cases they transmitted their 
professions in their own families. So excellent were these com- 
bined conditions for bringing up robust and capable families, 
that today a large proportion of New England families of con- 

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spicuous merit are descended on one side or the other from 
a minister or a lawyer. 

In American society of today the conditions of professional 
and business life are ordinarily unfavorable to the establish- 
ment of families in the country. ''' * * A very practical 
question, then, is how to resist, in the interest of the family, 
the tendency to live in cities and in large towns. For families 
in easy circumstances there is' no better way than that which 
European experience has proved to be good, namely, the pos- 
session of two houses, one in the country and the other in the 
city, the first to be occupied for the larger part of the year; 
but this method is costly, and involves a good many things 
not noticed at first sight. * * * During the past thirty 
years there has been in the Eastern States a great increase in 
the number of families using two houses, and the tendency in 
such families has been to spend a longer and longer time in the 
country or by the seaside. 

The next change for the better to be noticed is the adop- 
tion of suburban life by great numbers of families, both poor 
and well-to-do, the heads of which must do their daily work 
in cities. Recent improvements in steam and electric railway 
transportation make it easy for a family man, whose work is 
in the city from eig^it or nine o'clock to five or six o'clock, to 
live fifteen or even twenty miles from his office or shop. The 
chances are strong that the death-rate in an open-built suburb, 
provided with good water and good sewers', will be decidedly 
lower than in the city; indeed, "that it will not be more than 
from one-half to three-quarters of the city death-rate. In the 
5uburb are better air, more sun and more tranquil life. 

A third mode of combating the ill effects of density of pop- 
ulation, and of giving city families some of the advantages of 
country life, is by increasing in cities the provision of public 
squares, gardens, boulevards and public parks'. The city open 
square or garden is one thing, and the city park quite another ; 
the former being properly an open-air sitting-room or nursery 
for the neighboring people, the second being a large piece of 
open country brought into the city. Both are needful in much 
larger number and area than it has been the custom to provide 
in American cities. It is important also to cultivate among our 

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people the habit of using all the squares and parks they have, 
for Americans are very far behind Europeans in the intelli- 
gent use of such reservations. 

I venture to state next the proposition that a permanent 
family should have a permanent dwelling-place, domicile or 
home town. In older societies this has always been the case. 
Indeed, a place often lent its name to a family. In American 
society the identification of a family with a place is compara- 
tively rare. In American cities and large towns there are yet 
no such things as permanent family houses. Even in the old- 
est cities of the East, hardly any family lives in a single house 
through the whole of a generation, and two successive genera- 
tions are rarely born in the same house. Rapid changes of 
residence are the rule for almost everybody, so that a city di- 
rectory which is more than one year old is untrustworthy for 
home addresses'. The quick growth of the chief American 
cities, and the conversion of residence quarters into business 
quarters, partly account for the nomadic habits of their in- 
habitants ; but the inevitable loss of social dignity and repose, 
and the diminution of local pride and public spirit, are just 
as grevious as if there were no such physical causes for the 
restlessness of the population. The human mind can scarcely 
attribute dignity and social consideration to a family which 
lives in a hotel, or which moves into a new flat every first of 
May. 

In the country, however, things are much better. In the 
older States there are many families which have inhabited the 
same town for several generations, a few which have inhabited 
the same house for three generations, and many farms that 
have been in the same family for several generations ; and in 
more and more cases prosperous men, who have made money 
in business or by their professions, return to the places where 
their ancestors lived, and repossess themselves of ancestral 
farms which had pased into other hands. In the country it 
is quite possible, under a democratic form of government, that 
a permanent family should have a permanent dwelling; and 
in any village or rural town such a family dwelling is always 
an object of interest and satisfaction. To procure, keep and 
transmit such a homestead is a laudable family ambition. It 

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can be accomplished wherever testamentary dispositions are 
free, and the object in view is considered a reasonable and de- 
sirable one. It must be confessed, however, that very few 
country houses in the United States have thus far been built 
to last. We build cheap, fragile and combustible dwellings, 
which, as a rule, are hardly more durable than the paper houses 
of the Japanese. Nevertheless, our families might at least do 
as well as the Japanese families, which are said to live a thou- 
sand or fifteen hundred years on the same spot, although in a 
series of slight houses. 

The next means of promoting family permanence is the 
transmission of a family business or occupation from father 
to sons. In all old countries this inheritance of a trade, shop 
or profession is a matter of course ; but in our new society, 
planted on a fresh continent, it has not been necessary thus 
far for every family to avail itself, in the struggle for a good 
living, of the advantage which inherited aptitude gives. But 
as population grows denser and competition for advantageous 
occupations grows more strenuous, and as industries become 
more refined and more subdivided, the same forces which have 
produced the transmission of occupations' in families in Eu- 
rope and Asia will produce it here. * * * 

The most important of all aids in perpetuating sound fam- 
ily stocks is education. Whatever level of education a family 
has reached in one generation, that level at least should be at- 
tained by the succeeding generation. It is a bad sign of fam- 
ily continuance if a farmer, who was himself sent away from 
home to a country academy for two or three terms, does not 
give his son the same or a corres])onding opportunity. It is 
a bad sign if a clerk in the city, who himself went through the 
high school, is content that his son should stop at the gram- 
mar school. It is a bad sign if a professional man, whose fath- 
er sent him to college, cannot do as much for his son. Dimin- 
ution of educational privileges in a family generally means 
either decline in material prosperity or loss of perception of 
mental and spiritual values. The latter loss is a deal worse 
than loss of property in its effect on family permanence ; for 
low intelectual and moral standards are fatal to family worth, 
whereas countless excellent families meet with reverses in 

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business, suffer losses by flood or fire, or confide in untrust- 
worthy persons, and yet survive with all their inherent men- 
tal and spiritual excellences. In a righteous democracy the 
qualities which make a family permanent are purity, integrity, 
common sense and well-directed ambition. Neither plain liv- 
ing nor rich living is essential, but high thinking is. Now, the 
ultimate object of education, whether elementary, secondary, 
or higher, is to develop high thinking. What, for example, is 
the prime object of teaching a child to read? Is' it that he may 
be able to read a w^ay bill, a promissory note, or an invoice? 
Is it that he may be able to earn his living? No! These are 
merely incidental and comparatively insignificant advantages. 
The prime object is to expand his intelligence, to enrich his 
imagination, to introduce him to all the best human types both 
of the past and of the present, to give him the key to all knowl- 
edge, to fill him with wonder and awe, and to inspire him with 
hope and love. Nothing less than this' is the object of learning 
to read; nothing better or more vital than this is the object of 
the most prolonged and elaborate education. The improve- 
ment of the human being in all his higher attributes and powers 
is the true end ; other advantages are reaped on the way, but 
the essential gain is a purified, elevated and expanded mind. 
We often hear it said that high school graduates have learned 
too much, or have been trained out of their sphere — whatever 
that may mean — and that colleges do not produce the captains 
of industry. Such criticisms fly very wide of their mark. They 
do not conform to the facts, and they betray in those who 
make them a fundamental misconception of the ultimate ob- 
ject of all education. The object of education and of family 
life is not to promote industry and trade ; rather the supreme 
object of all industry and trade is to promote education and 
the normal domestic joys. We should not live to work, but 
work to live — live in the home aft'ections, in the knowledge and 
love of nature, in the delights' of reading and contemplation, 
in the search for truth, and in the worship of the beautiful 
and good. In urging this view of the object of education, I 
have presented the only argument needed to convince a fair- 
minded man that the family which would last must look to 
the education of its children. * * * 

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If adequate laws and institutions provide for the safe hold- 
ing and transmission of property, whatever promotes thrift 
and accumulation of property in families promotes family 
permanence. Democracy distrusts exaggerated accumulations 
of property in single hands ; but it firmly believes in private 
property to that extent which aflfords reasonable privacy for 
the family, promotes family continuance and gives full play 
to the family motive for making soil, sea and all other natural 
resources productive for human uses. Thus democratic leg- 
islation incorporates and protects savings banks, trust com- 
panies, insurance companies of all kinds, benefit societies and 
co-operative loan and building associations, which are all use- 
ful institutions for promoting thrift, if they are vigilantly 
watched and wisely controlled by the state. But the most di- 
rect legislative contribution to family permanence, apart from 
marriage and divorce laws, is to be found in the laws regulat- 
ing the transmission of land, buildings, implements, wagons, 
vessels, household goods and domestic animals, both by will 
or contract and in the absence of will or contract. The great 
majority of families hold no other kinds of property than 
these, the ancient and universal kinds. Stocks and bonds, 
forms of property which have practically been created within 
forty years, are held only by an insignificant proportion of 
families; so that legislation affecting unfavorably the trans- 
mission of these new forms of property from one generation 
to another could not be very injurious to the family as an in- 
stitution. For example, succession taxes on stocks and bonds 
might be imposed without serious' harm. On the other hand, 
any legislation which should destroy or greatly impair the 
inheritable value of land, or of improvements on land, would 
be a heavy blow at family permanence, particularly in a state 
where land is for the most part owned by the occupiers. The 
farm, the village lot and the town or city house with its ap- 
purtenances and contents, constitute transmissible family prop- 
erty in the vast majority of cases. In the interests of the fam- 
ily, democratic legislation on inheritances should chiefly re- 
gard, not the few estates which are counted in hundreds of 
thousands' of dollars, but the millions which are counted in 
hundreds of dollars. Inheritances of a few hundreds of dol- 

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lars have a great importance from the point of view of family 
permanence; for most inheritances are on that scale, and five 
hundred dollars means a favorable start in life for any young 
working man or woman. The proposal to destroy by taxation 
the transmissible value of land seems to be aimed at the few 
unreasonably rich, but it would strike hardest the frugal and 
hard-working millions. 

Lastly, family permanence is promoted by the careful 
training of successive generations in truth, gentleness, purity 
and honor. It is a delightful fact that these noble qualities 
are in the highest degree hereditary, and just as much so in a 
democratic as in an aristocratic society. They are to be ac- 
quired also by imitation and association ; so that a good family 
stock almost invariably possesses and transmits some of them. 
Truth is the sturdiest and commonest of these virtues ; gentle- 
ness is a rarer endowment ; purity and honor are the finest and 
rarest of them all. In a gentleman or lady they are all com- 
bined. Democratic society has already proved that ladies and 
gentlemen can be made much more quickly than people used 
to suppose ; but since it has been in existence hardly one hun- 
dred years, it has not yet had time to demonstrate its full ef- 
fect in producing and multiplying the best family stocks. It 
has already done enough, however, to justify us' in believing 
that in this important respect, as in many others, it will prove 
itself the best of all forms of social organization. 

Does any one ask. Why take so much thought for the 
permanence of superior families? I reply that the family is 
the main object of all the striving and struggling of most 
men, and that the welfare of the family is the ultimate end 
of all industry, trade, education and government. If the fam- 
ily under a democratic form of government is prosperous and 
permanent, the state, and civilization itself, will be safer and 
safer through all generations. — From an ess^Lj, Family Stocks 
in a Democracy, in "American Contributions' to Civilization," 
by Charles W. Eliot. 



A democratic structure of society imposes new duties on 
public education, and demands of it a great variety of new 
services. The freedom of individual action which character- 



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izes a democracy results in great inequalities of condition ; and 
the immense material resources of modern democratic society 
create an endless variety of occupations and grades of service- 
ableness, which match an endless variety of capacity in the 
individual citizens. Democratic wealth and democratic edu- 
cation combine to create among the citizens many different 
levels of serviceableness, and many different grades of physical 
refinement and mental cultivation. In a democracy education 
is the chief factor in determining the social classification, al- 
though birth contributes, since birth often determines the early 
material and spiritual environment. 

The education of the child, as Rabelais, Montaigne, Comen- 
ius, Locke, Rousseau and Pestalozzi understood education, is 
the only way in a democracy of transmitting high position from 
one generation to another. The transmission of mere money 
will not accomplish this result ; and, moreover, intellectual and 
artistic tastes and personal excellences of body and soul are 
more surely transmissible than property. ^ ^ * The idea 
that useful knowledge can not be cultural must be dismissed. 
* * * In order to preserve what has already been won, col- 
lectivism must provide for the transmission not only of the 
skill of the artisan, but of his right spirit in work. * * * 
It demands that every kind of education shall produce useful 
men, filled with the spirit of serviceableness. * * * In ed- 
ucation — which is a slow process— the attention of reformers 
is always concentrated upon modification, amelioration or 
transformation, and they are quite sure that these changes 
require for complete fulfillment, not days or years, but gen- 
erations. 

* * * Public education and the cultivation in selected 
individuals of the power to imagine, invent and co-ordinate 
have kept pace with the amazing material development of the 
nineteenth century .-^Charles W. Eliot, former president of 
Harvard University, in ''The Conflict Between Individualism 
and Collectivism in a Democracy." 



It must be remembered that ability is not identical \yith 
eminence. Ability is the product of ancestry and training. 

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Eminence is an accident of social conditions. — From "The 
American People," by John R. Commons. 



In education it is not sufficient to be merely accurate. It 
is necessary to hold fast to the higihest ideal. Once this ideal 
gains control of a student's life, that student will undertake 
faithfully and courageously whatever duties lie before him, 
whether they concern his professional life, his social life, or 
his country's service. — From "The Educated Man and the 
State," by Henry S. Pritchett. 



In any system of education, classic, scientific or manual, 
accuracy and idealism are far more important than mere knowl- 
edge. For the formation of habits of accuracy and the de- 
velopment of ideals are themselves the very essence of char- 
acter-building. — From "Education and Religion," by Arthur T. 
Hadley, president of Yale University. 



I would not be understood as advocating mere learning. 
The gentleman of culture who simply enjoys his culture and 
his superiority has no place in the world today. The scholar 
should be a patriot in a large sense. The age demands expres- 
sion. The church is less than ever satisfied with mere sub- 
jective religious enjoyment, it engages in practical work for 
humanity. * * * Education is not education unless it 
stimulates self-activity.— From "American Problems," by 
James H. Baker. 



"In France," said Sainte-Beuve, "the first consideration for 
us is not whether we are amused and pleased by a work of art 
or mind, nor is it whether we are touched by it. What we 
seek above all to learn is, whether we were right in being 
amused with it, and in applauding it, and in being moved by 
it." And Mr. Mathew Arnold, who translates this passage, 
adds that, "These are very remarkable words, and they are, I 
believe, in the main, quite true. A Frenchman has, to a con- 
siderable degree what one may call a conscience in intellectual 
matters ; he has an active belief that there is a right and wrong 
in them, that he is bound to honor and obey the right, that he 

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is disgraced by cleaving to the wrong." The conscience that 
all the world has in moral matters, the Frenchman has also in 
intellectual — and especially in literary matters. 

The intellectual conscience is necessary to the cultivation 
and conservation of good taste and the highest enjoyment in 
all things. It is the product of high intellectual power and 
discrimination and is fostered both by correct social and ma- 
terial environment and the tendencies that are latent in 
heredity. 



The spirit of the Society of Sons of the Revolution is not 
to dififerentiate its members from society at large, but to be 
useful in a patriotic way and to preserve to its members all 
those advantages that belong to old families and long lines of 
descent, with the qualities that give those advantages. Thus 
the members may be stronger to assist in leavening society 
with those qualities that a worthy pride in clean and honorable 
family history and tradition contribute to the general wel- 
fare. This spirit is the spirit of morality and gentility and 
fellowship and not of snobbery and of narrow and conceited 
aristocracy. It is the spirit of aristocracy in the original and 
best meaning of that word, the spirit of the best citizenship. 
The Society's social motive is to preserve and cultivate in its 
members those refinements and forces of character that have 
distinguished the best people of all times and all nations. — 
From"'The Book of the Sons of the Revolution in Indiana, 
Number Two." 



BRIEF HISTORY OF THE GENERAL SOCIETY OF 
SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 



The Society of the Cincinnati was instituted at the canton- 
ment of the American army on the Hudson River, the thir- 
teenth day of May, 1783. The articles of association contained 
the following provisions: "To perpetuate, therefore, as well 
the remembrance of this vast event [American freedom and 
independence], as the mutual friendships which have been 
formed under the pressure of common danger, and in many 
instances cemented by the blood of the parties, the officers of 
the American army do hereby, in the most solemn manner, 

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associate, constitute and combine themselves into one society 
of friends, to endure as long as they shall endure, or any of 
their eldest male posterity, and in failure thereof, the collat- 
eral branches, who may be judged worthy of becoming its 
supporters and members." 

All officers of the American army, as well as those who 
resigned with honor, after three years' service in the capacity 
of officers, or who had been rendered supernumerary and hon- 
orably discharged, in one of the several reductions of the army, 
or who had continued to the end of the war, and all French 
officers who served in the co-operating army under Count 
d'Estaing, or auxiliary army under Count de Rochambeau, and 
held or attained the rank of Colonel for such services, or who 
had commanded a French fleet or ship of war on the American 
coast, were entitled to become original members. 

The Cincinnati is organically one society, but, for conven- 
ience, is subdivided into State societies, there being thirteen. 
A society was also instituted in France under the direct pat- 
ronage of Louis XVI, but was dispersed in the Reign of Ter- 
ror in 1793. On the original roll of membership appeared the 
names of nearly all the great historic military and naval char- 
acters of the Revolution. George Washington and Alexander 
Hamilton were early officers of the general society. 

The establishment of the Cincinnati met with a most bitter 
opposition throughout the young nation. By Jefferson, Samuel 
and John Adams, Gerry, Jay, Franklin and many others dis- 
tinguished in the civil departments of the government, it was 
denounced as an order of chivalry, making rapid strides to- 
wards an hereditary military nobility, sowing the seeds of 
vanity, ambition, corruption, discord and sedition. In 1784 
several objectionable features of the organic law were recom- 
mended to be changed, but, notwithstanding these recommen- 
dations were embodied in a letter by General Washington to 
the State societies, and were endorsed by him, the changes 
were not made. Franklin got a new impression of the society 
when he returned from France, and on July 7th, 1789, he was 
elected a member of the Pennsylvania Society and partici- 
pated in its meetings. 

If maintained upon its present foundation, especially as re- 

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gards the succession, confined to the male order of primo- 
geniture, the Cincinnati will, in time, become extinct. The 
Sons of the Revolution will then be called upon to perpetuate 
its glories and keep its memory green. It was in March, 188^. 
that Hamilton Fish, President-General of the Cincinnati, said, 
"I regard the Society of Sons of the Revolution as a younger 
brother of the Cincinnati, laboring to perpetuate the same prin- 
ciples and inheriting the same memories which belonged to 
the Cincinnati." 

The origin of the Sons of the Revolution, the second pa- 
triotic society, built on a more permanent basis, is interesting. 

With December 16th, 1873, the centennial of the Boston 
Tea Party, commenced a notable sequence of official and pub- 
lic celebrations commemorating the heroic occurrences in our 
great struggle for independence, which aroused to activity the 
hearts of those who cherished the deeds of their ancestors. 

The Society of the Cincinnati had ceased to exist in most 
of the original States, and where it had retained its autonomy 
it had become inconsiderable in numbers, and, refraining from 
participation with other organizations in the celebration of na- 
tional events, it had practically resolved itself into an exclusive 
social aristocrac}^, and lost its influence as a leader in the com- 
memoration of the military campaigns of our history. 

This condition of its affairs made a deep impression upon 
the minds of many who were jealous of the brilliant fame of 
that society, and it was hoped that the present advent of cen- 
tennial years would be propitious for restoring that order to 
its original position of ascendancy. 

Mr. John Austin Stevens presented the subject to the Hon- 
orable Hamilton Fish, the President-General, representing that 
there was no organized body, other than the Cincinnati, to take 
the lead in patr'iotic observances ; that the dissolution of most 
of the State associations, and the rapidly decreasing member- 
ship of the others, most surely indicated the ultimate extinc- 
tion of the entire Society, unless its doors were opened for an 
increase in numbers, and he urged that the institution be so 
amended that all male descendants of original subscribers, or 
of any officer who was entitled to membership, might be eli- 
gible 'for membership into that organization. The suggestion 

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was received in a kindly spirit, but Mr. Stevens was informed 
that the unanimous sentiment of the Cincinnati prohibited any 
departure from the precedents of nearly a century, and no 
change could be made from the established rule of eligibility. 

Mr. Stevens was gravely impressed by these conditions. 

Endowed with the profound erudition of the discriminating 
historian, with a thorough comprehension of the emotions and 
passions which control all human action, and gifted with that 
acuteness of philosophical reasoning which so surely arrives 
at unequivocal conclusions, he felt that the time was ripe for 
the organization of a great patriotic society upon the broadest 
foundations of association, catholic as to its membership in 
right of ancestors of the Revolution, and which might be made 
a factor for good in the direction of public affairs and the in- 
culcation of principles of honor and patriotism in the hearts 
of the young. 

With faith in the goodness of his cause, he presented the 
matter to those of his associates whom he knew to be in full 
accord with his sentiments, and on the eighteenth day of De- 
cember, 1875, in the rooms of the New York Historical So- 
ciety, a meeting was held to discuss the feasibility of this 
project. 

The proposition of Mr. Stevens was heartily endorsed, and. 
by a happy inspiration, a name unique and descriptive was se- 
lected for the new society. 

In 1765, on nearly the same spot, and under the vows of 
Masonic secrecy, was organized "The Sons of Liberty," whose 
purpose was resistance to the Stamp Act, and the insidious en- 
croachment of England upon the rights of the Colonies. The 
movement spread rapidly from Boston to Savannah, and its 
members were the leaders in all those aggressive acts of op- 
position which finally compelled a repeal of the law. 

The term "Sons of Liberty" was first used by Colonel Barre 
in one of his speeches before Parliament, denouncing its 
despotic course toward America. 

In adopting the name, "Sons of the Revolution," the com- 
mittee chose an appellation significant of its purpose to con- 
serve those eternal principles of honor, patriotism, liberty and 
justice, the heritage from "The Sons of Liberty," and which 

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name we hope most devoutly will endure until time shall end. 

A second meeting was had at the same place on January 
15, 1876, when Mr. Stevens presented a constitution which, 
after thoughtful consideration, was unanimously approved and 
signed by all who were present. 

This was the institution of the Society of Sons of the 
Revolution, and Mr. Stevens was requested to make such pub- 
lic announcement of the fact as he might think suitable. He 
issued the following circular letter: 
''Sons of the Revolution : 

"The society of the Cincinnati, founded at West Point by 
the officers' of the Army of the Revolution in 1783, originally 
limited its membership to descendants of officers in the elder 
branch, and with a temporary and short variation from the 
rule, has ever maintained its restriction. 

'The approach of the Centennial Anniversary of American 
Independence is an appropriate time for the formation of a 
society on a broader basis, which may include all descendants 
of those who served with the Army of the Revolution. 

"The undersigned have formed themselves into a society 
under the name of 

'SONS OF THE REVOLUTION,' 
and invite the membership of all who, like themselves, are 
descendants of officers or soldiers of the Revolutionary Army. 

"The object of the society is to take part in the Centennial 
Exhibition at Philadelphia. 

"A meeting will be held for organization at the rooms of 
the New York Historical Society on the morning of Tuesday, 
the 22d of February, next (1876), at 12 o'clock. 

"All persons having a right and desire to become members 
may send their names and the names of those they represent 
to the undersigned (Box 88, Station 'D,' New York Post 
Office) . JOHN AUSTIN STEVENS." 

But few acceptances of this invitation were received, and, 
deferring further action, Mr. Stevens awaited with patience a 
more propitious occasion to present the features of this new 
society. 

At the close of the year 1883, the centennial anniversaries 

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of the evacuation of New York, and of Washington's last meet- 
ing with his officers, were events which indicated to Mr. 
Stevens and his associates that the time had come for a suc- 
cessful and permanent establishment of the order. 

Elaborate preparations were made for a dinner at Fraunce's 
tavern, to be given on December 4, 1883, in commemoration of 
the close of Washington's military career, in that afifectionate 
and pathetic farewell to his officers, "With a heart full of love 
and gratitude, I now take leave of you. I most devoutly wish 
that your latter days may be prosperous and happy as your 
former ones have been glorious and honorable." 

Here, at the time indicated, in the identical "long room" 
used by Washington and his men, assembled a company of 
representative New York citizens, gentlemen distinguished in 
the mercantile world and in the walks of science, literature, 
medicine, jurisprudence and the church. 

A souvenir of this banquet is the white and gold Haviland 
porcelain turtle bowl, upon which was burned in blue the 
portrait of Washington, with the legend in red: 

"COMMEMORATION FEAST, 
IN HONOR OF THE ONE HUNDREDTH ANNIVER- 
SARY OF WASHINGTON'S FAREWELL TO HIS 
OFFICERS. AT THE LONG ROOM, 
FRAUNCES' TAVERN, 
TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 4, 1883." 

The constitution of the Society of Sons of the Revolution 
was presented by Mr. Stevens and his associates, and it was 
received with enthusiastic acclaim. The original document 
was brought from the archives of the Historical Society where 
it had been deposited, and it was signed by all present who 
were eligible by Revolutionary descent, more than forty gen- 
tlemen affixing their signatures, and the New York Society 
was organized by the election of John Austin Stevens, Presi- 
dent ; John Cochrane,* Vice-President ; Austin Huntington, 
Secretary, and George H. Potts, Treasurer. 

On the twenty-ninth day of April, 1884, a certificate of in- 
corporation was executed by the following gentlemen : John 
Austin Stevens, John Cochrane, Austin Huntington, George H. 

* Member of the Society of the Cincinnati. 

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Potts, Frederick S. Tallmadge, George W. W. Houghton, Asa 
Bird Gardiner, Thomas H. Edsall, Joseph W. Drexel, James 
Mortimer Montgomery, James Duane Livingstone, Alexander 
R. Thompson, Jr., and John Bleeker Miller, and on May 2, 
1884, Judge George C. Barrett signed the certificate of incor- 
poration. 

Public attention was immediately attracted to this new so- 
ciety, and an increase of membership followed, not alone from 
New York, but from the adjoining states. At the annual elec- 
tion of 1884, Mr. Frederick Samuel Tallmadge was elected 
President, in which office he was continued for the remainder 
of his life, and George Washington Wright Houghton was 
chosen Secretary, serving until 1886, when he was succeeded 
by James Mortimer Montgomery. Upon the organization of 
the General Society at Washington, on April 19, 1890, Mr. 
Montgomery was elected General Secretary, but the great 
prosperity of the New York Society, resulting from his ener- 
getic labors, had been so marked that its members insisted he 
should continue in the charge of its affairs. In 1893, however, 
the accumulation of work in the General Society made it im- 
possible for him to retain both positions, and he declined a re- 
election by New York. 

At the time of the centennial celebration of the adoption 
of the constitution of the United States, this society had 
increased to upwards of four hundred members, and the mate- 
rial of which this membership was composed was of such 
substantial and good standing in the community that when a 
committee of two hundred was appointed by the Mayor from 
among the citizens of New York to take the management of 
the magnificent celebration, thirty-six of its members were 
found to be members of the Society of Sons of the Revolution. 
A number of them were again placed upon the most important 
sub-committees, and were intrusted with the most responsible 
and laborious duties. The Society itself was given the highest 
place of honor next to the Society of the Cincinnati, and 
paraded as an escort to the President to their full number. 

Societies were next organized in Pennsylvania and the Dis- 
trict of Columbia. 

In the early part of 1890, the large increase of membership 

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in New York, Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia, and 
the unanimous manifestation of a desire for a closer bond of 
association between these societies, and the establishment of 
some general rules under which their proceedings might be 
harmonized, resulted in the appointment of committees from 
New York and Pennsylvania to consider the feasibility of a 
union, and report their joint action to their several societies. 
The committee appointed from New York consisted of George 
Clinton Genet, Chairman ; Charles H. Woodrufif, John J. Riker, 
John G. Floyd and Alexander R. Thompson, Jr. Pennsylvania 
appointed Richard McCall Cadwalader, Chairman ; J. Edward 
Carpenter, J. Granville Leach, Clifford Stanley Sims and Her- 
man Burgin. 

At a conference of these committees in Philadelphia, Feb- 
ruary 12, 1890, to which was added Mr. Arthur Henry Button 
from the District of Columbia, the fundamental principles for 
a general society were evolved, and to Mr. Sims was given the 
honor of drawing a constitution. 

Clifford Stanley Sims was a justice of the New Jersey 
Court of Errors and Appeals, and, for many years. President 
of the New Jersey Society of Cincinnati. In the draft of a 
constitution for the Sons of the Revolution, he took as a model 
the institution of the Cincinnati. A comparative analysis of 
the two instruments will disclose how closely he followed such 
of the sections of the institution as were appropriate for the 
new society, adopting, in many portions, the exact language 
of the original document; and in submitting the result of his 
labors, he stated that he had omitted provisions for amend- 
ments, believing the course pursued by the Cincinnati, for such 
emergencies, to be the best. 

The constitution prepared by Mr. Sims received the ap- 
proval of the Pennsylvania Society, by which it was unani- 
mously ratified, and on the following April third, similar action 
was taken by the District of Columbia Society. 

At a generally attended meeting of New York, held in the 
Masonic Temple on March 8, 1890, over which Mr. Tallmadge 
presided, the report of the joint committee, with a draft of the 
proposed constitution, was presented and enthusiastically ap- 
proved and ratified, and in pursuance of such action, delegates 

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were appointed to meet representatives' from Pennsylvania and 
the District of Columbia in joint convention. 

A great reward was about to be received for the anxious 
thought and untired labors of eight years, by the establishment 
of a confederation, modeled upon the relations of the several 
states to the general government, and wherein the doctrine of 
state's rights was admitted to an extreme limit. Practically 
the only limitation upon the powers' of the independent state 
societies was in the eligibility clause, which is as follows: 

"Any male person above the age of twenty-one years, of 
good character, and a descendant of one who, as a military, 
naval or marine officer, soldier, sailor or marine, in actual 
service, under the authority of any of the thirteen colonies or 
states', or of the continental congress, and remaining always 
loyal to such authority, or a descendant of one who signed the 
Declaration of Independence, or of one who, as a member of the 
continental congress or of the congress of any of the colonies 
or states, or as an official appointed by or under the authority 
of any such legislative bodies, actually assisted in the estab- 
lishment of American Independence by services rendered dur- 
ing the War of the Revolution, becoming thereby liable to con- 
viction of treason against the government of Great Britain, but 
remaining ahvays loyal to the authority of the colonies or 
states, shall be eligible to membership in the society." 

So much has been said and written concerning the eligibil- 
ity provisions for membership in the Society of Sons of the 
Revolution ; and so many erroneous charges have been made — 
we charitably believe through misinformation — in regard to the 
collateral feature embraced in the constitutions of a few of 
our state societies, that it is thought a relation of that paricular 
phase of our experiences may be proper in this place, although 
it anticipates by a few years the logical sequence of events. 

Article 2 of the constitution of the parent society, adopted 
by that corporation prior to the organization of the General 
Society, contained the following clause: 

"Provided further: That where there shall be no surviving 
issue in direct lineal succession from an officer, soldier, sailor, 
or marine w'ho died or was killed while in actual service as 
aforesaid, or from an officer who received, by formal resolve, 

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the appropriation of the continental congress for Revolution- 
ary services, or from a signer of the Declaration of Independ- 
ence, the claim of eligibility shall descend and be limited to 
one representative at a time in the nearest collateral line of 
descent from such propositus, who may be otherwise qualified 
as herein required, and to be designated by the Society; and 
no other descendants in collateral lines shall be admitted in 
right of any services whatever." 

One of the purposes of the organization of the society, as 
stated in the preamble, was *'To perpetuate the memory of the 
men who, in military, naval or civil service, by their acts or 
council, achieved American independence," and it was felt not 
only to be an expression of gratitude for the sacrifice of such 
lives, but an act of justice to those who left no children or 
children's children, that their names should be perpetuated 
upon the records, with those, more fortunate, who left a loving 
posterity. 

The second paragraph of the institution of the Cincinnati 
states that "The officers of the American army do hereby in 
the most solemn manner, associate, constitute and combine 
themselves into one society of friends, to endure as long as 
they shall endure or any of their eldest male posterity, and in 
failure thereof the collateral branches who may be judged 
worthy of becoming its supporters and members." 

Follow^ing the precedent, New^ York adopted the provision 
for collateral representation ; the restriction that only one rep- 
resentation should be received, was a safeguard against any 
honest charge of relaxation of the strict rule for admission. 

The constitution of the New York society was so admirable 
in its general features, that it w^as the foundation for the 
constitutions of the other state societies, and in some of them 
this identical provision for a collateral representation was in- 
serted, but only two or three states besides New York admitted 
any one to membership under this restriction. 

At a meeting of the General Societv in Faneuil Hall, on 
April 19, 1895, Mr. Rukard Hurd, of Minnesota, moved the 
adoption of the following, viz. : 

''Resolved, That the General Society directs the attention 
of state societies' whose constitutions contain eligibility 

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through collaterals, that the same is in conflict with the consti- 
tution of the General Society." 

Mr. Charles Henry Jones, of Pennsylvania, seconded the 
motion and the resolution was unanirnously adopted by states, 
as well as viva voce. 

The collateral clause was subsequently eliminated from the 
several state constitutions and the matter has been forever 
put to rest. 

It has been charged that Americans are a litigious people, 
and that no legislature or convention ever assembles without 
having among its number that ubiquitous individual who is 
always ready with an amendment to established rules of ac- 
tion ; and the committee which passed upon the constitution 
drawn by Judge Sims, having before them the precedents of 
the Cincinnati, actuated by the same ideas that prevailed in the 
construction of that institution, and for the purpose of safe- 
guarding the rights of the weaker states against undesired 
amendments to the constitution, which might be adopted by 
merely a majority vote of the preponderating Atlantic influ- 
ence, very wisely omitted any mode or procedure for change 
or amendment, and as it is the law of the Cincinnati that no 
change can be made in its institution without the ''unanimous 
vote of the representation of all the state societies," so was it 
intended in this constitution that no amendment could be made 
against the objection of a single state. This is most explicitly 
affirmed in the record of the proceedings of the General Society 
at Trenton, April 23, 1892, at New York, February 16, 1893, 
and at Baltimore, April 19, 1894, when the law was enunciated 
and unequivocally sanctioned that no amendment to the con- 
stitution of the General Society of Sons of the Revolution can 
become effective without the consent of all the state societies. 
This has been accepted as the general rule in all subsequent 
meetings; and, like the subject of collateral eligibility, it must 
undoubtedly be considered as the settled law of this organiza- 
tion. 

At Washington, on the nineteenth day of April, 1890, in 
Chamberlin's Hotel, the deputies from the three societies of 
New York, Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia were 
called to order by Mr. Tallmadge, and that assemblage of dis- 

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tinguished gentlemen effected the consummation of the work 
so ardently desired. The General Society of Sons of the Revo- 
lution was established upon the broadest foundations of frater- 
nal and ancestral association and state equality, and the fol- 
lowing gentlemen were the first officers elected : 
General President, 
Ex-Governor John Lee Carroll, of Maryland. 
General Vice-President, 
Major William Wayne, of Pennsylvania. 
General Secretary, 
James Mortimer Montgomery, of New York. 

Assistant General Secretary, 
Timothy Matlack Cheesman, of New York. 

General Treasurer, 
Richard McCall Cadwalader, of Pennsylvania. 
Assistant General Treasurer, 
Arthur Henry Button, of the District of Columbia. 
General Chaplain, 
Daniel Cony Weston, D. D., of New York. 
Mr. John Austin Stevens, the founder of the Society of 
Sons of the Revolution, belonged to the class of 1846, of Har- 
vard University. He was grandson of Brevet-Colonel Ebe- 
nezer Stevens, of the Second Regiment, Continental Corps of 
Artillery in the Revolution, and is known as the accomplished 
founder of the Magazine of American History. 

The National Society holds triennial meetings, the next 
being held in Washington, D. C, April 19, 1911. 

A short history of the Indiana Society of Sons of the Revo- 
lution may be found in The Book of the Sons of the Revolu- 
tion in Indiana, Number Two, which may be found in the 
city library and in the state library. 

Note : A statement of the difference between this Society 
and the Society of Sons of the American Revolution is pur- 
posely omitted. The latter society has several times proposed 
a union, but there are points of difference which make a union 
impossible. The Sons of the American Revolution was organ- 
ized in New York, April 30, 1889, and was incorporated in 
1906. It absorbed a California society of descendants of Revo- 
lutionary patriots, called the Sons of Revolutionary Sires, 

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organized July 4, 1875, and oftentimes dates its own origin 
back to the time of birth of the latter organization. The New 
York or Empire State Society was organized February 11, 
1890. Any person desiring information on this subject may 
consult the following: 

An Explanation of Some of the Differences between the 
Society of Sons of the Revolution and the Society of Sons of 
the American Revolution. Printed by Allen, Lane and Scott, 
P'hiladelphia, 1890. The Army and Navy Journal October 17, 
1891 ; circular letter of the New York Society, February 22, 
1893; circular letter of the General Society, Baltimore, April 
5, 1893; letter of the Alassachusetts Society, October, 1896; 
Digest of the Proceedings of Meeting of the General Society 
at Philadelphia, April 19, 1897; Delegates' Reports to the 
Tennessee Society, October 19, 1897 ; Delegates' Reports to the 
Massachusetts Society, November 22, 1897. 



CONSTITUTION, INDIANA SOCIETY. 



ARTICLE L 
Name of Society. 

The Society shall be known by the name, style and title of 
''Society of Sons of the Revolution in the State of Indiana." 

ARTICLE II. 
Objects. 

The objects of the Society are social, educational and pa- 
triotic, and the Society is formed for the particular purpose 
of perpetuating the memory of the men who, in military, naval 
and civil service of the Colonies and of the Continental Con- 
gress, by their acts or counsel, achieved the Independence of 
the Country; and to further the proper celebration of the 
anniversaries of the birthday of Washington and prominent 
events connected with the War of the Revolution ; to collect 
and secure for preservation the manuscripts, records and other 
documents relating to that period ; to inspire the members of 
the Society with the patriotic spirit of their forefathers ; and 
to promote the feeling of fellowship among its members. 

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ARTICLE III. 
Membership. 

Any male person above the age of 21 years shall be eligible 
to membership in this Society who is lineally descended from 
any ancestor as the propositus, who, either as a military, naval 
or marine officer, soldier, sailor or marine, or official in the 
service of any one of the thirteen original Colonies or States 
or of the National Government represented or composed of 
those Colonies or States, assisted in establishing American 
Independence during the War of the Revolution, between the 
19th day of April, 1775, when hostilities commenced, and the 
19th day of April, 1783, when they were ordered to cease. 

Provided, That when the claim of eligibility is based on the 
service of an ancestor in the "minute men" or the "militia" it 
must be satisfactorily shown that such ancestor was actually 
called into the service of the State or United States and per- 
formed garrison or field duty; and. 

Provided, That when the claim of eligibility is based on 
the service of an ancestor as a "sailor" or "marine" it must in 
like manner be shown that such service was other than shore 
duty and regularly performed in the Continental Navy, or the 
navy of one of the original thirteen States, or on an armed 
vessel, other than a merchant ship, which sailed under letters 
of marque and reprisal, and that such ancestor of the applicant 
was duly enrolled in the ship's company either as an officer, 
seaman or otherwise than as a passenger ; and, 

Provided, further, That when the claim of eligibility is 
based on the service of an ancestor as an "official" such service 
must have been performed in the Civil Service of the United 
States or of one of the thirteen original States, and must have 
been sufficiently important in character to have rendered the 
official specially liable to arrest and imprisonment, the same 
as a combatant, if captured by the enemy, as well as liable to 
conviction of treason against the government of Great Britain. 

In the construction of this Article the Volunteer Aides-de- 
Camp of General Officers in Continental Service, who were 
duly anounced as such and who actually served in the field 
during a campaign, shall be comprehended as having per- 
formed qualifying service. 

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The civil officials and military forces of the State of Ver- 
mont during the War of the Revolution shall also be compre- 
hended in the same manner as if they had belonged to one of 
the thirteen original States. 

No service of an ancestor shall be deemed as qualifying 
service for membership in this Society where such ancestor, 
after having assisted in the cause of American Independence, 
shall have subsequently either adhered to the enemy or failed 
to maintain an honorable record throughout the War of the 
Revolution. 

No person shall be admitted as a member of this Society 
unless he be eligible under one of the provisions of this Article 
and unless of good moral character and adjudged worthy of 
becoming a member. 

ARTICLE IV. 
Officers. 

The officers of the Society shall consist of a President, a 
First Vice-President, a Second Vice-President, a Third Vice- 
President, a Fourth Vice-President, a Secretary, a Treasurer, 
a Registrar, an Historian, a Chaplain, and a Board of Man- 
agers, who shall be chosen by ballot from among the members 
thereof annually to serve for the term of one year, or until 
their successors are elected and qualified. 

Provided, That the tenure of office for any person shall not 
be more than two years in succession, and that no person 
shall be eligible for re-election to the office which he has held 
until one year has elapsed after the end of his term of service. 
This is not to apply, however, to the Board of Managers and 
the Historian. 

ARTICLE V. 
Board of Managers. 

The Board of Managers of the Society shall be nineteen in 
number, namely: The President, the Vice-Presidents, the 
Secretary, the Treasurer, the Registrar, the Historian and the 
Chaplain, ex-officio, and nine others, who shall be chosen by 
ballot from among the members of the Society annually to 
serve for the term of one year and until their successors are 
elected and qualified. The Board shall have power to fill va- 

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cancies ocurring in their own number, and to fill newly created 
offices between annual meetings. 

ARTICLE VI. 
Admission of Members. 
Every application for membership shall be made in writing, 
subscribed by the applicant and approved by two members 
over their signatures. Applications shall contain or be accom- 
panied by proof of eligibility, and such applications and proofs 
shall be submitted to the Board of Managers, who shall have 
full power to determine the qualifications of the applicant. 
Payments of the initiation fee and dues required by the By- 
Laws of this Society shall be prerequisites of membership. 
ARTICLE VII. 
Subjects Prohibited. 
No question involving religious doctrine or the party poli- 
tics of the day within the United States shall ever be discussed 
or considered in any meeting of the Society. 
ARTICLE VIII. 
Commemorations. 
It shall be a standing regulation that the members shall, 
when practicable, hold a commemorative celebration and dine 
together at least once every year. 

ARTICLE IX. 

Seal and Insignia. 

The Seal of the Society, the Insignia to be worn by the 

members and the rules governing the use of the latter, shall 

be such as are, or may be hereafter, prescribed by the General 

Society of Sons of the Revolution. 

The Secretary shall be the custodian of the seal. 
The Treasurer of the Society shall procure and issue the 
Insignia to the members and shall keep a record of all issued 
by him. Such Insignia shall be returned to the Treasurer 
by any member who may formally withdraw, resign or be 
expelled, but otherwise shall be deemed an heirloom. 

No member shall receive more than one badge, unless to 
replace one, the loss or destruction of w^hich shall first be satis- 
factorily established. The badge shall never be worn as an 
article of jewelry. 

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On occasions other than meetings for any stated purpose 
or celebration, members may wear a rosette of the prescribed 
ribbon and pattern in the upper button hole of the left lapel of 
the coat. The Treasurer shall procure and issue the rosettes 
to members. 

ARTICLE X. 
Alterations and Amendments. 

No alterations or amendments of the Constitution of this 
Society shall be made unless notice thereof be duly given in 
writing, signed by the member proposing the same, at a meet- 
ing of the Society, and unless the same shall be adopted at a 
subsequent meeting by a vote of three-fourths of the members 
present, and in the notices issued for such meeting the fact 
shall be stated that a proposed amendment to the Constitution 
will be considered. 

BY-LAWS, INDIANA SOCIETY. 



SECTION I. 
Fees, Dues and Contributions. 

The initiation fee shall be two dollars ; the annual dues 
three dollars, payable on or before the 1st day of October in 
each year. 

Provided, That all new members shall pay pro rata from 
the date of their admission. The payment at one time of fifty 
($50) dollars shall constitute a life membership. The pay- 
ment at one time of one hundred ($100) dollars shall consti- 
tute a perpetual or endowed membership, and upon the death 
of any member so paying, the membership shall be held by his 
eldest son or such other descendant from the ancestor from 
whom he claims, as he may nominate ; in failure of such nomi- 
nation the Society may decide which of the descendants shall 
hold the membership; Provided, always. That the Society re- 
serves to itself the privilege of reiecting any nomination that 
may not be acceptable to it. All those holding life or en- 
dowed memberships shall be exempt from the payment of the 
initiation fee and annual dues. 

SECTION II. 
Permanent Fund. 

All life and endowed membership fees, as well as donations 

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which may be paid the Society, shall remain forever the use 
of the Society as a Permanent Fund, the income only of which 
may be expended. 

SECTION III. 
Annual Meeting. 

The annual meeting of the Society shall be held in the city 
of Indianapolis, on the 19th day of October (except when that 
day is a Saturday or Sunday, when the date shall be left to 
the discretion of the Board of Managers), at which a general 
election of officers and managers by ballot shall take place. In 
such election a majority of the ballots given for any officer or 
manager shall constitute a choice; but if, on the first ballot, 
no person shall receive such majority, then a further balloting 
shall take place, in which a plurality of votes given for any 
officer or manager shall determine the choice. 
SECTION IV. 
Quorum. 

At all meetings of the Society eight (8) members shall 
constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. The ayes 
and nays shall be called at any meeting of the Society upon 
the demand of five members. 

SECTION V. 
President. 

The President — or, in his absence, the Vice-Presidents in 
their order, or, in the absence of all, a Chairman pro tempore — 
shall preside at all meetings of the Society and shall have a 
deciding vote, in case of a tie. He shall preserve order and 
decide all questions of order, subject to an appeal to the Sb- 
ciet}'. The President shall be, ex-officio, a member of all com- 
mittees. 

SECTION VI. 
Secretary. 

The Secretary shall conduct the general correspondence of 
the Society. He shall notify all members' of their election 
and of such other matters as may be required of the Society. 
He shall have charge of the Seal, Certificate of Incorporation, 
Constitution, By-Laws and Records of the Society and shall 
issue certificates of membership. He. together with the pre- 
siding officer, shall certify all acts of the Society and in proper 

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cases' authenticate them under seal. He shall affix the Seal to 
all properly authenticated certificates of membership and trans- 
mit them without delay to the members for whom they shall 
be issued. He shall, under the direction of the President or 
Vice-President, give due notice of the time and place of all 
meetings of the Society and attend the same. He shall keep 
fair and accurate records of all the proceedings and orders of 
the Society and shall give notice to the several officers of all 
votes, orders, resolutions and proceedings of the Society affect- 
ing them or appertaining to their respective duties. He shall 
be Secretary of the Board of Managers and keep the record of 
their meetings in the regular minute book of the Society. 

SECTION VH. 
Treasurer. 

The Treasurer shall collect and deposit the funds and secur- 
ities of the Society in a reliable bank to the credit of said 
Society. Said funds shall be used for no other purpose than 
for said Society. Out of these funds he shall pay such sums 
as may be ordered by the Society or by the Board of Man- 
agers. He shall keep a true account of his receipts and pay- 
ments, and at each annual meeting shall render a statement 
to the Society when a committee shall be appointed to 
audit his accounts. He shall give such bond as the Board of 
Managers shall require. 

SECTION VIII. 
Registrar. 
The Registrar shall keep a roll of members and in his hands 
shall be lodged all the proofs of membership qualification and 
all the historical and other papers of which the Society may 
become possessed ; and he, under the direction of the Board 
of Managers, shall make copies of such similar documents as 
the owners thereof may not be willing to leave permanently 
in the keeping of the Society. 

SECTION IX. 
Chaplain. 
The Chaplain shall be a regularly ordained minister of a 
Christian denomination and shall perform such duties as ordi- 
narily appertain to such office. 

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SECTION X. 
Historian. 

The Historian shall procure from the Secretary, the Regis- 
trar, and other reliable sources, historical papers, or other re- 
liable data, and carefully compile a history of the Society from 
its organization ; and transcribe the same in a book, which 
shall be the property of the Society. He shall keep a detailed 
record of the events happening within the Society, which shall 
include a list of the members admitted during the year, and 
present the same to the Society at each annual meeting, to- 
gether with the yearly necrological list and suitable biogra- 
phies of the deceased members. He shall edit and prepare 
for publication such historical addresses, essays, papers, and 
other documents of an historical character, which the Secre- 
tary may be required to publish. 

SECTION XL 
Board of Managers. 

The Board of Managers shall consist of nineteen members, 
namely: The President, the Vice-Presidents, the Secretary, the 
Registrar, the Treasurer, the Historian and the Chaplain, ex- 
ofificio, and nine other members. At least five members of the 
entire Board shall be residents of the city of Indianapolis, Indi- 
ana. All the Board shall be elected at the annual meeting. 
They shall elect their own Chairman. In case of a vacancy in 
any of these offices the Board may fill it until the next 
election. They shall judge of the qualifications of the candi- 
dates for admission to the Society and upon the recommenda- 
tion of the Committee on Admissions shall have power to elect 
the same to membership. They shall, through the Secretary, 
call special meetings at any time upon the written request of 
three members of the Society and at such other times as they 
see fit. They shall recommend plans for promoting the objects 
of the Society, shall digest and prepare business and shall 
authorize the disbursement and expenditure of unappropriated 
money in the treasury for the payment of the current expenses 
of the Society. They shall generally superintend the interests 
of the Society and perform all such duties as may be committed 
to them by the Society. At each annual meeting of the vSo- 
ciety they shall make a general report. At all meetings of the 

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Board of Managers four members shall constitute a quorum 
for the transaction of business. 

SECTION XII. 
Amendments. 
No alteration of the By-Laws of the Society shall be made 
unless such alteration shall have been proposed at a previous 
meeting and shall be adopted by a majority of the members 
present at any meeting of the Society, five days' notice thereof 
having been given each member. 

SECTION XIII. 
Order of Business. 
At all meetings of the Society and of the Board of Man- 
agers the following order of business shall be observed, so far 
as may be applicable. 

1. Prayer by the Chaplain. 

2. Reading of minutes of prior meetings not previously 
acted upon. 

3. Election of officers and managers when necessary. 

4. Reports of Officers. 

5. Reports of Committees. 

6. Unfinished business. 

7. Miscellaneous business. 

SECTION XIV. ^ 
Committee on Admissions. 
The Chairman of the Board of Managers shall appoint 
annually three members thereof as a Committee on Admis- 
sions, whose duty it shall be to pass upon the qualifications 
of applicants for admission to the Society and to submit a 
report thereof to the Board of Managers. 
SECTION XV. 
Expulsion and Suspension. 
The Board of Managers shall have power to expel any 
enrolled member of this Society who, by conduct unbecoming 
a gentleman and a man of honor, or by an opposition to the 
interests of the community in general or of this Society in par- 
ticular, may render himself unworthy to continue a member; 
or who shall persistently transgress', or without good excuse, 
wilfully neglect or fail in the performance of any obligation 
enjoined by the Constitution, By-Laws or any standing rule 

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of this Society: Provided, That such member shall have re- 
ceived at least ten days' notice in writing- of the complaint pre- 
ferred against him and of the time and place for hearing the 
complaint and have been thereby afforded an opportunity to be 
heard in person. 

Whenever the cause of expulsion shall not have involved 
moral turpitude or unworthiness any member thus expelled 
may, upon the unanimous recommendation of the Board of 
Manag-ers, but not otherwise, be restored to membership by 
the Society at any meeting. 

The Board of Managers shall drop from the roll the name 
of any enrolled member of the Society who shall be two years 
in arrears in payment of dues and who. on notice to pay the 
dues, shall fail and neglect to do so within thirty days there- 
after ; and upon being thus dropped his membership shall cease 
and determine ; but he may be restored to membership at any 
time by the Board of Managers on his application therefor and 
upon his payment of all such arrears and of the annual dues 
from the date when he was dropped to the date of his restora- 
tion. The Board of Managers may also suspend any ofificer from 
the performance of his duties for cause, which proceeding 
must be reported to the Society and acted upon by it within 
thirty days, either by revision of the suspension or removal 
of the suspended officer from office, or otherwise the suspen- 
sion shall cease. 

SECTION XVI. 
Resignation. 

No resignation or withdrawal from membership by any 
member enrolled in this Society shall become effective as a 
release from the obligations thereof, unless consented to and 
accepted by the Board of INfanagers. 

SECTION XVII. 
Disqualification. 

No person who may be enrolled as a member of this Societv 
shall be permitted to continue in membership when the proofs 
of claim of qualification by descent shall be found to be defect- 
ive and insufficient to substantiate such claim or not properly 
authenticated. The Society or Board of Managers may, at 
any time after thirty days' notice to such person to properly 

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substantiate or authenticate his claim, require the Secretary 
to erase his name from the list of members, and such person 
shall thereupon cease to be a member; Provided, He shall have 
failed or neglected to comply satisfactorily with such notice. 

Where the Board of Managers shall direct the erasure of 
a person's name for a cause comprehended under this section 
such person shall have the right of appeal to the next annual 
meeting of the Society; but he shall not be restored to mem- 
bership unless by a vote of three-fourths of the members pres- 
ent on that occasion, or at a subsequent meeting to which the 
consideration of the appeal may have been specially postponed. 
SECTION XVIII. 
Service of Notices. 
It shall be the duty of every member to inform the Secre- 
tary by written communication of his place of residence, his 
postoffice address' and of any change thereof. 

Service of any notice under the Constitution or By-Laws 
upon any member of the Society, addressed to him at his last 
recorded place of residence or postoffice address and forwarded 
by mail, shall be deemed sufficient service of such notice. 
SECTION XIX. 
Elections. 
The Board of Managers in their discretion may appoint a 
nominating committee to select members to be voted for as 
officers of the Society at the annual meetings. Said selections 
shall be purely advisory and shall in no way prevent any mem- 
ber from voting for any other member for any office m the 
Society. The voting shall be by ballot and the person receiv- 
ing the majority of all votes cast shall be declared elected. 
SECTION XX. 
Delegates to the General Society. 
Delegates to the General Society shall be chosen by the 
members of this Society at its meeting next preceding that of 
the General Society; and, failing such choice, shall be selected 
by the Board of Managers. 

SECTION XXL 
Decease of Members. 
Upon the decease of any member notice thereof and time 
and place of the funeral shall be given by the Secretary by 

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mail or publication, and it shall be the duty of members when 
practicable to attend the obsequies. Any member, upon being 
informed of the death of another member, shall see that the 
Secretary is promptly notified of the fact. 

The Board of Managers are empowered and directed to pur- 
chase a flag- of standard size and present it to the family of 
each deceased member to be preserved as an heirloom. 
SECTION XXII. 
Local Societies. 

When five or more members' of this Society, residing within 
proximity, outside of Indianapolis, petition the Board of Man- 
agers, it may authorize and empower such petitioners to form 

a local Chapter, to be known as Chapter 

of the Society of Sons of the Revolution in the State of 
Indiana. Such Chapter, when authorized, may adopt such 
local regulations' and by-laws as to it may seem proper, pro- 
vided that such regulations do not conflict in any particular 
with the Constitution of the General Society or with the Con- 
stitution and By-Laws of the Society of the State of Indiana. 
The officers of local chapers shall be a President, a Vice-Presi- 
dent, a Secretary, a Treasurer and an Executive Committee. 
The senior officer may attend the meetings of the Board of 
Managers of the Indiana State Society, notice whereof shall be 
sent to him by the Secretary of the State Society. 
SECTION XXIII. 
Certificate of Membership. 

Every member, upon the payment of a fee of one dollar, 
shall be entitled to receive a certificate of membership, which 
shall be authenticated by the President and Secretary and 
countersigned by the Registrar of the Society and to which the 
Seal of the Sons of the Revolution shall be affixed. The certifi- 
cate shall be in form following: 

SONS OF THE REVOLUTION IN THE STATE OF 
INDIANA 

Be it known that 

of by right of descent 

from of 

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who aided in achieving American Independence during the 
War of the Revolution, has' been duly admitted to membership 
in the Society of Sons of the Revolution in the State of 

Indiana, this day of in the year 

of our Lord and of the Independence of the United 

States of America the one hundred and 

President. 
(Seal.) Secretary. 

Registrar. 

INSTRUCTIONS TO APPLICANTS. 

The application must be presented singly, upon the form 
issued by the Society. 

The record of the ancestor's military service should be 
given fully but concisely. 

It is not necessary to show the pedigree any further back 
than the ancestor who served in the war. 

The Society does not accept encyclopedias, genealogical 
works, or town or county histories', except such as contain 
rosters, as authorities for proofs of service. 

In referring to printed works, the volume and page should 
be given. 

Reference to authorities in manuscript must be accompa- 
nied by certified copies, and authentic family records must 
be submitted, if required. 

Every application must be signed by applicant and sworn 
to by him, and it must be endorsed by two members of the 
Society. 

When the applicant is not personally known to any mem- 
ber of the Society whom he can ask to recommend his appli- 
cation, he must submit to the Secretary, when he files his 
papers, the names of two reputable citizens of the State to 
whom he refers by permission. 

When an applicant claims' descent from more than one 

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Revolutionary ancestor, then a supplementary application 
must be made for each ancestor. 

Supplementary claims are to be treated in form and pro- 
cedure precisely as original applications. There is no extra 
cost for filing supplementary claims. 

The officers of the Society will render assistance, when 
called upon, in making- search to find proof of ancestor's 
services. 

To begin to make a search for proofs, the applicant must 
know the State the ancestor served from, and in writing offi- 
cials simply ask ''for the military service of A. B., said to have 
been a soldier in the Revolutionary War," and they will inform 
you what rank they find and any other data the records show. 
Also give the name of town or county he served from, if you 
know, and officer he served under. 

The Indiana State Library contains many volumes of rec- 
ords of the Revolution from all the original States, and records 
are also to be found in the Indianapolis City Library. Some 
of the books one might consult are Heitman's Historical Regis- 
ter (if the ancestor was an officer), Saffel's Records' of the 
Revolution, the Indiana G. A. R. Register (1908), which con- 
tains a list of Indiana Revolutionary pensioners. When a 
name of a Revolutionary soldier can be found in any State or 
government publication, or in any record whose authority is 
unquestioned, a reference to the publication, with the volume 
and page number, is as satisfactory as a certificate from State 
or Government officers. In visiting a library, ask for all books 
containing rolls of soldiers from the State in which you are 
interested. 

If the ancestor was granted a pension for services in the 
Revolutionary War, a certificate, giving ancestor's military 
history, may be secured by addressing the Commissioner of 
Pensions at Washington. No charge is made for such cer- 
tificate. 

The Adjutant General's office, War Department, Washing- 
ton, D. C, has a card index of all Revolutionary soldiers whose 
service is recorded in muster rolls in possession of the War 
Department, and will furnish information without charge. 

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■Correspond with the following officials and others named, in 
the various States, for certificates of military service and the 
fees for search and for furnishing the certificate : 

Vermont — Consult "Rolls of Soldiers in the Revolutionary 
War, 1775 to 1783." Write Adjutant General of Vermont, 
Montpelier. 

New Hampshire — ^Consult ''State Papers of New Hamp- 
shire," Vols. XIV to XVH. Write Secretary of State, Con- 
cord. 

Massachusetts — Write Secretary of the Commonwealth, 
Boston. See "JMassachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revo- 
lutionary War." Many records in State House, Indianapolis. 

Rhode Island — Write Secretary of State, Providence. No 
charge for making research. Where name is found and certifi- 
cate furnished, $1.50. Consult "Vital Record of Rhode Island," 
Vol. XII, and "Revolutionary Defenses in Rhode Island." 

Connecticut — This State has published a very complete 
roster, containing 27,000 names. Address Adjutant Gen- 
eral, Hartford. Charges a small fee for a certificate, usually $1. 
See "Connecticut men in the Revolution," and publications of 
the Historical Society. 

New York — This State has published a roster, containing 
40,000 names, which volume is in the State Library at Indian- 
apolis. Consult "New York in the Revolution," and "New 
York Archives," Vol. 1. 

New Jersey has very complete records. Write Adjutant 
General, Trenton. Consult "New Jersey Men in the Revolu- 
tion." 

Pennsylvania— Write State Librarian, Harrisburg, for cer- 
tificate. The charge will be from $1 to $3, according to the 
length of research. Consult "Pennsylvania Archives." 

Delaware— Write Secretary of State, Dover. The charge 
for making copies is 2 cents per line, and $1 for certificate. 
Consult "Papers of the Historical Society of Delaware," Vols. 
XIII to XVI. 

Maryland— Write Commissioner of the Land Office, An- 
napolis, who will make search for name for 25 cents, and 75 

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cents additional for furnishing certificate. Also see "Maryland 
Archives," Vols. 11, 12, 16, and "Record Journal of the Council 
of Safety," etc., Vol. 18. 

Virginia — See "Saffel's Records of the Revolution" and "The 
Virginia Magazine." The Revolutionary records in this State 
are very meager, and it is difficult to find anything. Informa- 
tion consists mainly of the records of land bounty warrants, 
which were issued by the State to the soldiers who served 
three years or more. Write Mr. W. G. Stanard, 314 West 
Carey street, Richmond, Va., a gentleman highly recommend- 
ed, who has given considerable attention to tracing Virginia 
genealogies, and who will make a search of everything there 
is available at the State Capitol to find the name, for which 
he charges $5, to be paid in advance. If he finds the name 
he will furnish certificate of whatever he finds without addi- 
tional cost. 

North Carolina — It is difficult to get data from this State. 
The legislature made a large appropriation to gather data of 
the Revolution, but it resulted in more Colonial history. There 
is a list of Continental troops in the Continental Line and of 
Officers with dates of commissions, numbering less than 700. 
Write State Auditor, Raleigh, N. C. 

South Carolina — Th'^re are no rosters in existence of the 
Revolutionary soldiers from this State. "Gregg's History of 
the Old Cheraws" and "Safifel's Records of the Revolutionary 
War" contain some names of officers and privates from 
this State. Address A. S. Salley, Jr., Secretary State Histor- 
ical Commission, Columbia, S. C. 

Georgia — Write Secretary, Georgia Historical Society, Sa- 
vannah, for information of Georgia soldiers. That society has 
books and manuscripts which contain much useful information 
relating to the Revolutionary period. Also see Third Report 
of the D. A. R. (Senate Document 219, 2d Sess. 56th Con- 
gress), containing roll of Georgia soldiers. 



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DECEASED MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY OF SONS OF THE 
REVOLUTION IN INDIANA. 

Benjamin Harrison Indianapolis 

Jesse Claiborne Tarkington Indianapolis 

Eugene A. Robison Greenwood 

Benjamin D. Miner Indianapolis 

Rev. Charles N. Sims Liberty 

William S. R. Tarkington Indianapolis 

Albert C. Jennison Crawfordsville 

William C. Smock Indianapolis 

William Henry Wright Indianapolis 

Maurice Thompson Crawfordsville 

Moses Gates (original son) Valparaiso 

William Douglas (original son) Logansport 

Joseph Moore (original son) Bedford 

Dorsey L. Anderson Greencastle 

MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY OF SONS OF THE REVOLUTION IN 
THE STATE OF INDIANA. 

Bishop John Hazen White Michigan City 

John Grenville Mott Michigan City 

Edmund L. Brown Seymour 

William L. Elder 201 Saks Building 

John D. Pugh Shelbyville 

Dr. H. Alden Adams 14 West Ohio Street 

John M. Lilly Weston, Mass. 

James H. S. Lowes When Building 

John W. Minor, Jr Indianapolis 

Albert O. Lockridge Greencastle 

Claude L. Thompson Crawfordsville 

Levi A. Barnett Danville 

Charles S. Tilton Flat 4, 425 N. Delaware Street 

Henry Van Brunt Terre Haute 

William Allen Wood State Life Building 

Albert G. Snider 227 South Meridian Street 

Leslie D. Clancy 75 North Ritter Avenue 

M. H. Ingrim Winamac 

Col. John T. Barnett 2001 North Delaware Street 

Benjamin Kelsey 1508 College Avenue 

Rev. Allan B. Philputt Flat 2, The Vendome 

David M. Parry Golden Hill 

Rev. Lewis Brown 65, The Rink 

Eddy M. Campbell American National Bank Building 

Louis J. Blaker 2344 North Meridian Street 

Barton W. Cole 5654 East Washington Street 

Hiram B. Patten 427 Lemcke Building 

R. Carl Minton 2621 Ashland Avenue 

Gen. Charles Henry Noble 2104 North Alabama Street 

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Maj. Fletcher E. Marsh Syracuse 

Richard H. Sullivan Wichita, Kan. 

Charles F. Remy 1603 Park Avenue 

Jared R. Buell 128 West 20th Street 

Dr. Leon T. Leach 1511 North Meridian Street 

Theodore W. Barhydt Terre Haute 

Dr. M. M. Boggs Macy 

Scott V. Smith 1119 North Capitol Avenue 

Capt. William E. Hay ward 919 North Capitol Avenue 

Newton Booth Tarkington 1100 North Pennsylvania Street 

Ernest B. Cole 1936 Broadway 

Claude G. Richie 1844 North Delaware Street 

Worth W. Pepple Michigan City 

Col. Russell Benjamin Harrison Newton Claypool Building 

Dr. Harry E. Smock Franklin 

Louis B.. Ewbank State Life Building 

George B. Lockwood Marion 

Nicholas McCarty Harrison 1519 North Pennsylvania Street 

Henry D. Pierce 1415 North Meridian Street 

Edward L. McKee 1503 North Pennsylvania Street 

Warren David Cole Paris, Illinois 

Charles S. Levings Paris, Illinois 

Albert E. Martz Arcadia 

Henry Allen Luce Cody, Wyoming 

Capt. William E. English Hotel English 

Meredith Nicholson 1500 North Delaware Street 

Charles W. Moores 1918 North Pennsylvania Street 

Henry Waite Colgan 1140 North New Jersey Street 

Gen. William J. McKee 1213 North Delaware Street 

William Lowe Bryan Bloomington 

Frank B. Fowler K. P. Castle Hall 

Judge Hileary Q. Houghton Shoals 

Inman H. Fowler Spencer 

Lieut. Guy Eugene Bucker Mooresville 

Capt. Charles Leo Barry 404 Lemcke Building 

Dr. Edwin G. Kyte Methodist Hospital 

Alexander Hamilton Clark's, Louisiana 

Sanford D. Farrabee 2402 North Pennsylvania Street 

Charles J. Lynn 3509 Washington Boulevard 

Arthur J. Hamrick Greencastle 

Capt. Charles S. Maltby 5423 Julian Avenue 

Samuel T. Conkling Indiana Pythian Building 

Andrew Jackson Hedges (original) Richmond 

Gen. Charles A. Garrard 1211 Broadway 

Col. Theodore J. Louden Bloomington 

Maj. William M. Louden Bloomington 

Wellington Alexander Clark (original) Crown Point 

Henry B. Heywood 1506 North New Jersey Street 

John P. Heywood 1506 North New Jersey Street 

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Horace C. Starr 1708 North Pennsylvania Street 

Capt. Milton Garrigus Kokomo 

Stuart Eagleson 2301 Prairie Avenue, Ctiicago 

Dr. Jewett V. Reed 416 East 1th Street 

James A. Woodburn , Bloomington 

Albert C. Jennison, Jr Crawfordsville 

Sidney F. Daily 519 West McCarty Street 

Thomas A. Daily 1017 Lemcke Building 

Albert M. Bristor 901 Law Building 

Bennett B. Bobbitt 2450 Park Avenue 

Rev. Henry Webb Johnson South Bend 

Henry C. Churchman 1914 North Delaware Street 

William J. Greenwood Newton Claypool Building 

Eugene B. Scofield 146 North Pennsylvania Street 

Curtis G. Shake Vincennes 

George L. Stebbins 608 Board of Trade Building 

Paul Comstock Richmond 

Judge Charles T. Hanna 1017 Lemcke Building 

Frank M. Steele Shoals 

Augustin Boice 1505 North Delaware Street 

Capt. Robert H. Tyndall 106 North Pennsylvania Street 

Judge Robert W. McBride State Life Building 

Arthur N. Shoup 418 East 19th Street 

William C. Van Arsdel Greencastle 

Charles N. Williams Farmers' Trust Company 

Franklin Landers Bridges 1205 Park Avenue 

Charles Sumner Clancy 3555 North Pennsylvania Street 

Capt. Herbert W. McBride State Life Building 

Thomas T. Moore Greencastle 

Granville C. Moore Greencastle 

Mark Dennis 1619 North Alabama Street 

William L. Bridges 830 North Pennsylvania Street 

Albert P. Smith 128 East Washington Street 

Marshall T. Levey 44 South Pennsylvania Street 

Seymour L. Davis 20 East Michigan Street 

Howe S. Landers 1008 Odd Fellow Building 

Albert S. Pierson 3239 North Pennsylvania Street 

Dr. Ralph S. Chappell 605 Traction Terminal Building 

Edward A. Remy Seymour 

Rohert C. Ramsay Hotel English 

Elliott R. Tibbets 237 East Ohio Street 

William Henry Parkinson Rensselaer 

Ralph M. Ketcham 1008 Odd Fellow Building 

Herbert L. Whitehead 3440 Central Avenue 

Joseph A. Minturn 835 Indiana Pythian Building 

Judge Alexander C. Ayres 500 Indiana Trust Building 

Larned Irwin Snodgrass 1701 North Alabama Street 

Ovid Butler Jameson 1029 North Pennsylvania Street 

John Tarkington Jameson 1029 North Pennsylvania Street 

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William Franklin Landers 1832 North Pennsylvania Street 

Daniel W. Layman 1219 North New Jersey Street 

Alexander M. Stewart 816 North Meridian Street 

Richard M. Smock 507 East 21st Street 

William Allen Moore .1723 Talbott Avenue 

Robert Layman Dorsey 1219 North New Jersey Street 

John W. Ramsay 704 North Capitol Avenue 

Harvey B. Stout, Jr Meridian Heights 

OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY FROM ITS ORGANIZATION 
SEPTEMBER 30, 1897. 

1897. 

President Jesse Claiborne Tarkington 

Vice-President » .John Grenville Mott 

Secretary Harold Taylor 

Treasurer John D. Pugh 

Registrar Dr. H. Alden Adams 

Chaplain Rt. Rev. John Hazen White 

Chairman Board of Managers William Line Elder 

1898. 

President Jesse Claiborne Tarkington 

Vice-President John Grenville Mott 

Secretary William Allen Wood 

Treasurer Benjamin D. Miner 

Registrar Dr. H. Alden Adams 

Chaplain Rt. Rev. John Hazen White 

Chairman Board of Managers William Line Elder 

1899. 

President Jesse Claiborne Tarkington 

Vice-President John Grenville Mott 

Secretary William Allen Wood 

Treasurer Benjamin D. Miner 

Registrar Dr. H. Alden Adams 

Chaplain Rt. Rev. John Hazen White 

Chairman Board of Managers William Line Elder 

1900. 

President Jesse Claiborne Tarkington 

Vice-President John Grenville Mott 

Secretary William Allen Wood 

Treasurer Benjamin D. Miner 

Registrar Dr. H. Alden Adams 

Chaplain Rev. Allan B. Philputt 

Chairman Board of Managers William Line Elder 

1901. 

President William Line Elder 

Vice-President John Grenville Mott 

Secretary John W. Minor, Jr. 

Treasurer Benjamin D. Miner 

Registrar Charles Sewall Tilton 

Chaplain Rev. Lewis Brown 

Chairman Board of Managers Jesse Claiborne Tarkington 

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1902 

President John Grenville Mott 

Vice-President David M. Parry 

Secretary Leslie Dale Clancy 

Treasurer Dr. Harry Alden Adams 

Registrar Charles Sewall Tilton 

Chaplain Rev. Lewis Brown 

Chairman Board of Managers Col. John T. Barnett 

1903. 

President William Allen Wood 

Vice-President Newton Booth Tarkington 

Secretary Ernest Byron Cole 

Treasurer Dr. Harry Alden Adams 

Registrar Scott Voss Smith 

Chaplain Rev. Stanley C, Hughes 

Chairman Board of Managers Col. John T. Barnett 

1904. 

President Rev. Allan B. Philputt 

Vice-President Meredith Nicholson 

Secretary Louis J. Blaker 

Treasurer Hiram B. Patten 

Registrar Scott Voss Smith 

Chaplain Rev. Lewis Brown 

Chairman Board of Managers Col. John T. Barnett 

1905-1906. 

President Louis J. Blaker 

First Vice-President William Lowe Bryan 

Second Vice-President Bishop John Hazen White 

Third Vice President Lemuel Ford Perdue 

Fourth Vice-President Hileary Q. Houghton 

Secretary Leslie Dale Clancy 

Treasurer Hiram B. Patten 

Registrar Dr. Leon T. Leach 

Historian Ernest Byron Cole 

Chaplain Rev. Lewis Brown 

Chairman Board of Managers Col. John T. Barnett 

1906-1907. 

President Rev. Lewis Brown 

First Vice-President Capt. William E. English 

Second Vice President John G. Mott 

Third Vice-President David M. Parry 

Fourth Vice-President R. Carle Minton 

Secretary Hiram B. Patten 

Treasurer Frank B. Fowler 

Registrar Henry W. Colgan 

Historian Ernest B. Cole 

Chaplain Rev. Charles N. Sims 

Chairman Board of Managers Col. John T. Barnett 

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1907-1908. 

President Col. John T. Barnett 

First Vice-President William Lowe Bryan 

Second Vice-President Meredith Nicholson 

Third Vice-President John Grenville Mott 

Fourth Vice-President Newton Booth Tarkington 

Secretary Hiram B. Patten 

Treasurer Frank B. Fowler 

Registrar Henry Waite Colgan 

Historian Charles L. Barry 

Chaplain Allan B. Philputt 

Chairman Board of Managers William Line Elder 

1908-1909. 

President William Lowe Bryan 

First Vice-President Dr. H. Alden Adams 

Second Vice-President Rt. Rev. John Hazen White 

Third Vice-President John G. Mott 

Fourth Vice-President Alexander Hamilton 

Secretary ^. Leslie D. Clancy 

Treasurer Hiram B. Patten 

Registrar William C. Smock 

Historian Charles L. Barry 

Chaplain Rev. Lewis Brown 

Board of Managers. 
Chairman, Col. John T. Barnett. 
Samuel T. Conkling Chas. A. Garrard 

Edward L. McKee William L. Elder 

Louis J. Blaker Rev. Allan B. Philputt 

Col. Russell B. Harrison Inman H. Fowler 

1909-1910. 

President , David McLean Parry 

First Vice-President James Albert Woodburn 

Second Vice-President Gen. Charles Henry Noble 

Third Vice President Newton Booth Tarkington 

Fourth Vice-President Rev. Lewis Brown 

Secretary Capt. Charles S. Maltby 

Treasurer Hiram B. Patten 

Registrar Bennett B. Bobbitt 

Historian Capt. Charles L. Barry 

Chaplain Rev. Henry Webb Johnson 

Board of Managers. 
Chairman, Col. John T. Barnett. 
William Allen Wood Charles T. Hanna 

Samuel T. Conkling Rev. Allan B. Philputt 

Maj. Charles A. Garrard Henry C. Churchman 

William L. Elder Col. Russell B. Harrison 

1910-1911. 

President Hiram B. Patten 

First Vice-President Horace C. Starr 

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Second Vice-President George B. Lockwood 

Third Vice-President Albert O. Lockridge 

Fourth Vice-President Paul Comstock 

Secretary Albert M. Bristor 

Treasurer Charles Sumner Clancy- 
Registrar Mark Dennis 

Historian Charles L. Barry 

Chaplain Rev. Lewis Brown 

Board of Managers. 
Chairman, William Allen Wood 

Charles T. Hanna Robert W. McBride 

Charles J. Lynn Col. Russell B. Harrison. 

Samuel T. Conkling William L. Elder 

Charles A. Garrard Col. John T. Bamett 



Memorials and Other Property of Historic Interest Owned or 
Erected by the Sons of the Revolution. 

Fraunces' Tavern, of Colonial and Revolutionary fame, cor- 
ner of Broad and Pearl streets, New York City, purchased and 
restored by the New York Society. Washington bade fare- 
well to his officers here, December 4, 1783. 

Statue of Nathan Hale, by Macmonnies, erected in City 
Hall Park, New York, which was a parade ground for Wash- 
ington's troops in 1776. 

Bronze memorial, in high relief, erected in Annapolis in 
honor of the French who assisted in securing American inde- 
pendence. 

Bronze memorial, commemorating the battle of Long Is- 
land and marking the line of defense. 

Bronze tablet, commemorating the battle of Harlem 
Heights, erected on the walls of Columbia University, New 
York. 

Bronze tablet, to mark American encampments in 1776, 

erected on the walls of the College of the City of New York. 

Bronze tablet, Nassau Hall, Princeton University; two 

bronze tablets to perpetuate memory of Revolutionary events 

in Charleston, South Carolina, and many other memorials. 

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